These sort of incidents do make me question the diagnosing of brain death though. Was this an accidental misdiagnosis or did the doctors ‘go by the book’? There’s no point in keeping anyone ‘alive’ if they will never regain consciousness and personally I think that active euthanasia would be perfectly acceptable, even preferable, in some cases (e.g. Terri Schiavo), but how will you know in cases like this?

Why can’t these people give credit where credit is duly warranted? They really should be giving all their thanks to the doctors creating the situation that allowed for her apparently incredible recovery.

Are you sure?

But seriously, two things to keep in mind: 1: Even a lowly ambulance attendant has the benefit of experience and training based on science. (I don’t assume this doctor really even looked at the woman, based on the description) and 2: While it is true that from my perspective, this is in my own neighborhood (sort of) at a national scale, how many people are thought of as dead for a few minutes then the wake up? My grandmother used to do this a few times a day. She’d wake up and she’d be the one who thought she was dead… (But that’s another story)

Anyway, right, with 300,000,000 people in the country, it is surprising that we don’t have two or three stories like this per month.